Vanessa Blackmore joined Sullivan & Cromwell as a partner in 2006 in the London office. She has a broad-based international corporate and finance practice, advising clients on a wide range of strategic transactional and advisory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, international debt, equity and equity-linked financings, debt advisory and liability management, financial restructurings as well as on corporate governance and compliance issues. She has considerable experience in complex cross-border transactions and on bespoke and innovative solutions. She is recommended as a leading lawyer for capital markets in consecutive recent editions of Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Chambers UK and The Legal 500 United Kingdom, as well as for M&A and capital markets (equity) in IFLR1000.

Vanessa Blackmore joined Sullivan & Cromwell as a partner in 2006 in the London office. She has a broad-based international corporate and finance practice, advising clients on a wide range of strategic transactional and advisory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations, international debt, equity and equity-linked financings, debt advisory and liability management, financial restructurings as well as on corporate governance and compliance issues. She has considerable experience in complex cross-border transactions and on bespoke and innovative solu...

Publications

Global M&A Law Guide

Co-author of the United Kingdom chapter in the Global M&A Law Guide , published 28 April 2026 , alongside Jeremy Kutner and Vanessa Chia .